The GOP has the numbers, but Roy runs Raleigh.
The General Assembly has passed all kinds of green energy nonsense. They refused to challenge the governor’s long-term use of “emergency powers” — well beyond the end of ANY emergency. They let the governor beat them to the punch, regarding the overturn of Roe v. Wade, with a meaningless open-ended executive order. The Senate approved Medicaid expansion. “Parental Rights” is apparently too divisive and too much of a “political football”. The legislature has made no significant efforts to control state spending. They’re even looking at putting devices in our cars to track our mileage so they can more efficiently tax us.
Sounds like a Democrat-controlled legislature, eh? Sadly, no. It’s the dying embers of what was once known as “The Conservative Revolution.” A group that used to ignore the governor’s mansion and do what it wants is now surrendering to Democrat Cooper every time before the first shot is even fired.
The reason so much conservative legislation is dying on the vine on Jones Street? A bunch of whining to the effect of “Cooper is just going to veto it.”
WAAAAAAAAAANNNH! (*Call the wahhhhhhm-bulance.*)
Wait until we get the super-majority back after November, we’re told. Question: If they won’t take on conservative issues now, with the votes they have, what makes you believe they’ll do it when the GOP caucuses are bigger? (If they get bigger …)
I am told by friends on the inside on Jones Street that there is a bigger conservative population in both chambers than I realize. The leaders, I’m told, have no courage and are a big part of the problem. Well, who can fix that? What good is the whole Republican caucus if they’re going to keep electing cash-gobbling wet noodles like Phil Berger and Timmy Moore? If your majorities are helping to pass things in the Democrat platform, WHY should folks vote to give you MORE HELP?
(For the record, budget “surpluses” are not a good thing or conservative thing. They are an indication you have confiscated too much money from us, and need to give some of it BACK.)
Make Cooper veto stuff. “Roy Cooper wants you to be able to kill your baby up to the 8-1/2 month mark.” “Roy Cooper thinks $5 gas is great. In fact, it is a bargain. The price should be higher, he says.” His vetoes could provide excellent ammo for ads like that. The vetoes put him on the record. The current surrender-first tactics make ol’ Roy look like a good ol’ harmless Southern Democrat who might make a good Democrat VP candidate.
We want to see some fight against big-government liberalism and its advocates. If you’re not going to fight, leave town and let someone who WILL fight replace you.
Phil Berger and Tim Moore are pathetic wimps, more like Mitt Romney or Lisa Murkowski of Liz Cheney than Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, or even Jim Martin. They are also Roy Cooper Republicans. If you like Roy Cooper, you will love Phil Berger and Tim Moore.
The leftwing drift of Berger and Moore is the biggest obstacle to a big red wave in November, because they are stabbing the Republican base in the back,. In an off year like this one, the extent to which your own party base turns out is the key to winning. Berger and Moore have given the base a good reason to do something else on election day than go to the polls, and they are Benedict Arnold traitors to the Republican Party for that reason. Unfortunately, Tillis and McConnell have exhibited the very same treachery in Washington, DC. If the red wave falls short in North Carolina, it will be Berger, Moore, Tillis, and even McConnell to blame.
I hope that a conservative challenger to both Moore and Berger arise within the General Assembly. North Carolina Republicans deserve a lot better than this pair of Vichy Republicans who are in bed with Roy Cooper and the Democrats.
And has anyone stepped up or is willing to challenge them? Name the names and let’s start the ball rolling. IT’S NOW OR NEVER. IF we elect them AGAIN to those roles, we’ve defeated ourselves. WHO are the challengers that will step up? NONE in my area I assure you. Go along to get along types. The western guys/gals seem ‘more conservative’ than the eastern guys, IMO.
And THE ARTICLE is spot on. I emailed, called for 2Y during the shut-down. IF I received a response, very few mind you, it was ALWAYS ‘we don’t have the vote’….so, let us sit on our behinds and do nothing, just like our fellow sell-outs in DC/Capitol Hill…..
I HAVE NO FAITH IN BERGER OR MOORE…..they’ve allowed Coop to win at every turn and will allow Stein to be gov b/c they all despise Robinson. SAME for the courts…they will sell-out the conservatives everytime.
Some are encouraging Rep. Keith Kidwell, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus to challenge Tim Moore for Speaker. I have not heard any potential names in the Senate.
For evidence of who is calling the shots in NC, look no further than HB951 — the most incompetent NC energy legislation since 2007 (https://ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H951). This is the NC version of the Dem’s Green New Deal, authored by Republicans and supported by Republicans!!!
Not all!!
If there is really “a bigger conservative population in both chambers than [realized],” then why do all those self-proclaimed conservative legislators keep electing the same wimpy cash gobbling frauds?
Clear out the smoke and mirrors and the vast majority of the Republican Party is a big fat stinking turd – so to speak. No. Actually, it’s literally true.
I’m with you. IF so many conservatives, WHY can’t one or two rise up and challenge Berger & Moore?? THE reason I think IS they are comfortable with said Berger and Moore. Think Jesse would have stayed in the shadows? Coop & Stein run NC.
It’s Republican Party purple state heaven. The organized GOPe party is in this state of mind from top to bottom. This way of operating is enforced even at the local level by using every hook and crook method. Maybe there are rare exceptions, but I don’t know of any.
These days you can tell when a real conservative emerges because they are marginalized by the GOPe. The much-anticipated big wave election coming up just might turn out to be one big fake a$$ bust.
A failed attempt would leave the challenger and his / her supporters as punching bags for a reelected leadership, and put conservatives in even a worse situation, which is why they will want to have a good idea they can get the votes before pulling the trigger.
The Senate is really pathetic, with only one Republican voting against the horrid Green New Deal, HB951, and only one voting against Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
The federal Congress is just as bad with rotten Biden Republicans in the leadership, especially “China Mitch” McConnell in the Senate. The grassroots Republicans desperately need to total replacement of our swamp “Republican”
leadership in both Raleigh and Washington.
I’m still registered Republican, and I still vote Republican, but I haven’t sent a penny to the NCGOP in years, and (short of the ouster of Berger and Moore) don’t plan to. To me, Berger and Moore are just as repulsive as Obama and Biden, and just as dangerous as Roy Cooper.
Are any of y’all going to vote Democratic now because you don’t want the supermajority? Of course, that is your constitutional right – but Governor Cooper does run this state: he’s the Governor. Elections have consequences.
I have a question for some of you armchair quarterbacks here. Why would any competent pro life politician open up their kimono to the left by passing a bill they know will be vetoed and sustained and then be used to motivate the left wing base to vote in 2022 or by left wing lawyers to sue?
No competent pro life politician would support that – unless you really did want Roy Cooper or Josh Stein or liberal jurists to run Raleigh.
So you absolutely have a right to vote against the Republicans nominee in your district, but if you do that just to deny Tim Moore or Phil Berger a supermajority by electing new Republicans, you are being intellectually dishonest by then saying you are actually pro-life, conservative etc. – because you’re not.
The road to the supermajority goes through districts like House District 73 which is approximately rated D+2 under the court ordered map – where Brian Echevarria is a very strong pro life conservative. He is also a candidate many here supported in the primary and one whom I have now donated to and support because of his strong conservative values. However, these are the candidates you all are ironically implying should not win now out of pettiness and just itching for a fight I guess.
You’re a liberal masquerading as a conservative by wasting your time attacking conservatives rather than the Democratic officials who were elected that you actually have a beef with. Leadership elections happen after the general election. You all have a right then to petition your representative – or what I suspect here actually – some random representative in a district you do not live in or have any connection – to vote your desired way in a leadership election. I also suspect you don’t credibly think you will succeed with such an objective, so you’re now relegated to complaining online.
I have doubts that they particularly want a supermajority. They like the cover that “not having the votes”:gives them to not do anything conservative. Good thing for them anyway, as they’ve managed to PO some conservatives with primary shenanigans and unmet constituent service needs in a few critical swing districts that they’ll need for a Super. They don’t even need a supermajority to override a Governor Mark Robinson because they’ll always be able to peal off a few Dems to help them do that.
You make the Democrats vote on things that the Parental Bill of Rights, that sleazy Tim Moore chickened out of putting to a vote. Those votes can be used against them at election time if you call the vote, regardless of whether Cooper vetoes it or not.
There is also an old saying in politics that you “do not piss on your base” because that discourages your base from showing up to vote. In an off year like 2022, which party does the best job on turning out its base is the one that will win. Therefore passing Democrat legislation like the “bi-partisan” gun control bill in Washington, or Obamacare Medicaid expansion or the Green New Deal in Raleigh, creates a big risk of encouraging some of our base to get disgusted and stay home. It is one of the stupidest things that can be done in the run up to an off year election.
If we fail to win all we should this year, those responsible will be sell-outs like Tillis, McConnell, Burr, Moore, and Berger who threw cold water on the enthusiasm of our base. They ALL need to go.
They are not really conservative this is the point. If they were conservative then they would be fighting the left not holding hands with them
#BeLikeDeSantis and fight against degenerate leftists values and if one looses then at least one did not compromise their moral values in the process. Sure American soceity is going woke and failing but at least some have kept their ethical morality fighting the good fight. But we have not seen the good fight out of the NCGOP in a long long long time
I agree. They want our votes, but they are not with us.
Indeed, an acquaintance of mine tells me that ncgop isn’t taking anything for granted with the Budd-Beasley matchup, and yet, the way they treat their base, they’re acting very unintelligently. I’ve seen one poll that has Budd up only 3 points, so at least I can understand why they’re not complacent. But the weakness of the ncgop leadership (aside from their conservatism problem) is that they don’t know how to heal up the divisions and differences that have arisen within the Party going into an election year.
Budd’s ads are terrible at least the ones on YouTube and not sure if they are paid for by his campaign or some PAC but they lack any form of life and give no reason to vote for him. With some much woke insanity all over the place there should be plenty of material for great ads showcasing the insanity of the godless degenerate and vile people on the left
The USA is becoming a failed nation and the ads are like “Hey vote for me”
Off year elections are won by motivating your base. Idiot leadership is doing the opposite and alienating the base by such things as McConnell and Tillis’ federal gun control bill, Berger and Moore’s Green New Deal, and Berger and Moore’s Obamacare Medicaid Expansion. McConnell, like Hunter Biden, has financial ties to the Red Chinese, so one can see the money factors influencing him to help destroy the country. Maybe we need to start looking for the money ties that motivate Berger and Moore to do the same.
Where I live, the Party is working to keep the old wounds festered and new wounds inflicted. Maybe they don’t know how to heal divisions, but I think they don’t want to, either. I guess they’re trying to be like their heroes in Raleigh and DC.